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(FILES) This file photo taken on April 28, 2014 shows the Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai in Kagoshima prefecture.
Japan has restarted one of its few operating nuclear reactors on December 8, 2016 after a two-month safety checkup, despite still-heated debate over atomic power following the Fukushima disaster. The unit was shut down in October 2016 for inspections and maintenance under stricter rules brought in after a quake-sparked tsunami swamped the Fukushima plant in 2011, sending some reactors into meltdown and causing the worst nuclear disaster in a generation. / AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS / Japan OUTJIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images